Summary of bookmarked websites for Historians (mid-February update)

Something for everyone: medieval, early modern, modern, economic history, portraits, statistics, radio transcripts and more! See our Delicious pages for the 450 more websites.

digiberichte.de [travel accounts of late medieval Europe]
Digitized travel accounts of late medieval and early modern Europe. This project provides digitized editions and research literature on approx. 375 different travels and pilgrimages through Europe in historical times. The bibliographical database allows quick reference for the travel accounts. Due to copy right restrictions only literature from the 19th century and earlier is provided in full text.

Die Rechtssprechung des Reichskammergerichts (1495 – 1806)

The Reichskammergericht or Imperial Chamber Court was one of two highest judicial institutions in the Holy Roman Empire. This is a complicated database recording the judgements.

Digital libraries ” Rechtshistorie

A collection of links to digital libraries with a special interest for legal history. Ordering them by country is a rather random affair, in particular when modern borders do not fit with historical frontiers. The links collections on the pages for the different law systems mention relevant digital libraries. On the page for common law you will find information for Great-Britain. The Netherlands and Belgium are treated on the page for Old Dutch Law.

Early Modern Thought Online
“Early Modern Thought Online” (EMTO) is a database offering access to about 13.500 digitized source texts from early modern philosophy and related disciplines like history of science and history of theology provided by libraries in Europe and overseas. In the present stage of its development, EMTO presents mainly links to external resources. Search interface is in German. There is no subject searching.

Digitaler Portraitindex
An index of portraits printed in early printed books, largely published in Germany. Search or browse by occupation (writer, philosopher, musician, women, etc.). Searching is apparently hit and miss.

Mapping the Republic of Letters: Exploring Correspondence and Intellectual Community in the Early Modern Period (1500-1800)
A project which maps data relating to correspondence of European thinkers, scientists, philosophers and writers from the early modern period. The data comes from a number of other sources, e.g. Electronic Enlightenment (EE), Cultures of Knowledge, and others.

Dutch Censuses 1795-1971 (Volkstellingen)
The Volkstellingen 1795-1971 (Dutch Censuses) website enables you to view or download most of the Dutch census tables, published in the period 1795-1971. The original records were scanned and digitized and are now freely available as images as well as MS Excel tables. In addition to the Excel record tables, this site includes many of the original census documents in Adobe PDF format. Since 1997, the digitization of the data was accomplished during the course of three projects: Dutch Census Digitization 1795-1971, Dutch Census Data and Life Courses in Context. As a result of these three projects over 40,000 record pages were made digitally available to the public. [EHPS]

The Rothschild Archive
“Rothschild Archive” introduces this institution based in London. It holds over two million items drawn together from the history of the Rothschild banks and family. At the core of the Archive lie the records of the firm of NM Rothschild & Sons, the London branch of the banking dynasty. The Archive represents possibly the most detailed surviving record of an international banking operation in the 19th and early 20th centuries and of a family with artistic, charitable and scientific interests at the heart of European society. Includes bibliography of works on the Rothschild family, details of bursaries available for study at the archive and key dates in the history of the family. The guide to the archival papers is divided up: Nathan Mayer Rothschild in Manchester; Accounts; American; Bookeepers; Bullion; Cashiers; Correspondence; Estates; Loans; Stock; Family Records; and Records of Other Houses. This archive is of great use to those researching economic, social, and family history.

Allen – Unger Global Commodity Prices Database
The Database presents price data, published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in machine-readable form. The original goal was to examine changes in prices and their relation to international trade in early modern Europe. Price series were then expanded from just staple grains and beyond a limited number of years to the entire period ranging from the earliest known series from the High Middle Ages and down to 1914. The geographical range as well as that of commodities continues to expand with continued research and coding of published data.

Pre-War Television 1936-1939 (Radio Times Archive)
Online archive of the Radio Times for period 1936-1939.

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